Category: Conferences

A major benefit associated with RH Donnelley’s $345 million purchase of Business.com in July was getting Business.com founder Jake Winebaum. RHD needed an Internet change agent, and Winebaum clearly fit the bill after having played that role at Disney and other firms. At ILM:07 in LA last week, Winebaum gave his first major speech since […]

At the ILM conference last week in LA, we saw lots of great mapping demos from Google, Mobile People et al. But it was hard to nail down how maps and their related services (zip codes, neighborhood mapping and other spatial endeavors) specifically impact the local ecosystem. Of course, we know something BIG is going […]

Our friend Mel Taylor, who writes the engaging Local Media in a Web 2.0 world blog, took a full slate of PICTURES of the Interactive Local Media:07 Conference (and food and drinks). You-Were-There. Thanks Mel! (Pic: Mel Taylor)

Facebook VP of Product Development Chamath Palihapitiya, during a keynote at our ILM:07 conference in LA, says Facebook is keenly interested in driving local advertising via local media partners, its own outreach efforts and other means. Just six months after opening up beyond the college and high school student market, Facebook now has 55 million […]

At the Interactive Local Media: 07 conference that we are holding in Los Angeles, we got Yellowpages.com President Charles Stubbs to drop in as an unannounced speaker to talk about the InGenio purchase. Speculation puts the size of the InGenio purchase, which should close in early 2008, at being anywhere from $75 million to $200 […]